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DALLAM'S TRAVELS.
near the wale againe, and lifte up a carpit which lay
on the ground, and thar was six bottels full of verrie good
wyne, and a fairc silver cupe, and he filed that silver boulc
full of a redeishe wyne, which they do cale Rebola, and he
gave it me to drinke ; and when I had it in my hande
I caled to my frende Nede Hale, who stood a far of, for he
was a fraide to com neare. Hear, Nede, cothe I, a carrousc
to all our frendes in Inglande. I pray you, cothe he, take
heede what you dow. Will you take what drinke they
give you ? Yeae, truly, cothe I ; for it is better than
I have as yeat disarved of. When I had give God thankes
for it, I drank it of, and it was the beste that ever
I dranke. Than he filled me the same boule with whyte
Rebola, the which was more pleasante than the other.
When I had muche comended the wyne, and tould Ned
Hale that he was a foule to refuse suche a cup of wyne,
than he come neare the house, and desiered to have som
water; so he had the kettle to drinke in. When this was
all done, I was so well pleasede with this entertaynmente,
that I knew not how to thanke this man. I had no mony
aboute me but one halfe Dolor of Spanyshe mony, and
that mony is best accepted of in that countrie. I offered
to give that peccc of silver to this man, but he would not
by any means take it. Than I remembered that I had tow
severall (Seville ?) knyfes in my pocket. I toke one of them
and gave it him, and the blad gilded and graven. When
he had taken it oute of the sheathe and louked upon it, he
caled with a loude voyce : Sisto, Sisto ! Than another man
Came runninge, unto whom he showed but only the haftc
of it, and than they began to wrastell for the knife; but
he that I gave it unto kepte it, and leape ower the wale to
the side whear I was, and, bowinge him sclfe unto me, he
toke me by the hande, and led me aboute by the ende of
that house, and so into a litle cloystcr, throughe the
whyche we passed into a Chappell, whear we found a presto
DALLAM'S TRAVELS.
near the wale againe, and lifte up a carpit which lay
on the ground, and thar was six bottels full of verrie good
wyne, and a fairc silver cupe, and he filed that silver boulc
full of a redeishe wyne, which they do cale Rebola, and he
gave it me to drinke ; and when I had it in my hande
I caled to my frende Nede Hale, who stood a far of, for he
was a fraide to com neare. Hear, Nede, cothe I, a carrousc
to all our frendes in Inglande. I pray you, cothe he, take
heede what you dow. Will you take what drinke they
give you ? Yeae, truly, cothe I ; for it is better than
I have as yeat disarved of. When I had give God thankes
for it, I drank it of, and it was the beste that ever
I dranke. Than he filled me the same boule with whyte
Rebola, the which was more pleasante than the other.
When I had muche comended the wyne, and tould Ned
Hale that he was a foule to refuse suche a cup of wyne,
than he come neare the house, and desiered to have som
water; so he had the kettle to drinke in. When this was
all done, I was so well pleasede with this entertaynmente,
that I knew not how to thanke this man. I had no mony
aboute me but one halfe Dolor of Spanyshe mony, and
that mony is best accepted of in that countrie. I offered
to give that peccc of silver to this man, but he would not
by any means take it. Than I remembered that I had tow
severall (Seville ?) knyfes in my pocket. I toke one of them
and gave it him, and the blad gilded and graven. When
he had taken it oute of the sheathe and louked upon it, he
caled with a loude voyce : Sisto, Sisto ! Than another man
Came runninge, unto whom he showed but only the haftc
of it, and than they began to wrastell for the knife; but
he that I gave it unto kepte it, and leape ower the wale to
the side whear I was, and, bowinge him sclfe unto me, he
toke me by the hande, and led me aboute by the ende of
that house, and so into a litle cloystcr, throughe the
whyche we passed into a Chappell, whear we found a presto